[Fedora-xen] Upgrade to development xen on F8?

[Dustin Henning]

	You could download and build the latest stable or test source from xen.org.  This assumes you are familiar with that sort of thing, but if you want to test, you probably are...
	Dustin

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Summerfield
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 19:22
To: fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: [Fedora-xen] Upgrade to development xen on F8?

I'm a bit torn between asking here and asking on the Fedora test list.

I'd like to use the latest xen (that's what I'm testing), but I don't want to 
upgrade to the entire development tree.

I tried this, and was astonished at the number of packages to upgrade!
[root at potoroo ~]# yum install --disablerepo=* --enable=development kernel-xen 
kernel-xen-2.6-doc xen xen-hypervisor xen-libs xenwatch | wc -l
Error: Missing Dependency: kdemultimedia3 >= 3.5.8 is needed by package 
kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree
845
[root at potoroo ~]# 

Those 845 lines represent upgrading pretty much all of KDE and all of Gnome.

The package "xen" alone accounts for much of this:
[root at potoroo ~]# yum install --disablerepo=* --enable=development xen | wc -l
Error: Missing Dependency: kdemultimedia3 >= 3.5.8 is needed by package 
kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree
844
[root at potoroo ~]# 

My idea of an ideal host for virtual machines is one that runs guests and 
precious little else, and certainly not a GUI and all the baggage that 
entails. 

Do these *xen* packages build on f8? What's the easy way to get the source - I 
used to use up2date, but I fear the technolgogy's getting ahead of me.


-- 
John the Bewildered.

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